Man charged with killing 8 people at Georgia spas
By KATE BRUMBACK The Associated Press,March 17, 2021, 9:21 p.m.
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A makeshift memorial outside of Gold Spa in Atlanta on Wednesday, one of three businesses where at least eight people were killed and another injured by a shooter on Tuesday.LYNSEY WEATHERSPOON
ATLANTA (AP) â A white gunman was charged Wednesday with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror through the Asian American community, which has increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic.
A day after the shootings, investigators were trying to unravel what might have compelled 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long to commit the worst mass killing in the U.S. in almost two years.